Pacino wins best actor Emmy for Jack Kevorkian mini-series
Lauded performance in assisted-suicide biopic
The 62nd Emmy Awards saw Al
Pacino named outstanding lead actor in a miniseries or movie for his
performance in the Jack Kevorkian TV movie biopic “You Don’t Know Jack”. As
reported in BioEdge in April, the impossible has become
possible – the HBO film has not only depicted the doctor responsible for well
over a hundred mercy killings as a martyr but has been lauded for it as well.
~ San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 29; BioEdge, Apr 9
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Michael Cook edits BioEdge, a bioethics newsletter, and MercatorNet, an on-line magazine whose focus is human dignity. He writes from Sydney, Australia.
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